Wassily Chair

The Wassily Chair, also known as the Model B3 chair, was designed by Marcel Breuer for the constructivist painter Wassily Kandinsky. Both of them were working at the Bauhaus School in Dessau at the time (1925).

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Design - Marcel Breuer - Constructivist - Painter - Wassily Kandinsky - Bauhaus - Dessau - 1925

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This chair was revolutionary in the use of the materials (bent steel tubes and leather) and methods of manufacturing. It is said that Breuer's 'Adler' bicycle inspired him to use steel tubes to build the chair, and it proved to be a great material since it was available in great scale.

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Chair - Steel - Leather - Manufacturing - Bicycle - Material

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The Wassily chair, like many other designs of the modernist movement, was mass produced in the 1950s and 1960s, and as a design classic is still for sale today.

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Design - Modernist - 1950s - 1960s - Design classic

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